The spat between Restore and Zionists is infuriating. They both want the same thing.

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There is a concerted effort to bring down Britain's insurgent right-wing party, Restore. They've been accused of racism and anti-Semitism following Restore co-founder Charlie Downes' insinuations that Nigel Farage has been bought by Israel, and his claim that "Restore believe that Britain is a people defined by indigenous British ancestry and Christian faith."

Before I, an Anglo-Saxon white man, start talking about Zionism and Israel and the Jews, I should point out I'm a massive fan. I'm a Zionist. I believe the Jews have a right to a homeland, a right to self-determination and to control their borders. The thing is - I believe that the men and women of Britain have this right as well. And this seems to be where I diverge from the people criticising Restore.

Jewish journalist Melanie Phillips thundered, "The far right noisily identify British identity with Christianity...[but]... A Hindu or a Sikh, a Jew or a Muslim is as British as anyone else." And she said of migrants, "Upon taking citizenship, all become equally British."

But this clashes with her vision of Israel. "Israel is a Jewish state. Its national identity is Israeli and Jewish. So Arabs can only have the first, civic identity, but not the culturally fundamental second one."

Hmmm...no "just as Israeli as anyone else" there. Melanie Phillips accepts an ancestral/peoplehood basis for Jewish national self-determination in Israel while expressly denying that British national identity has an equivalent ethnic or ancestry-based character.

In the Telegraph, Alister Heath said "Rupert Lowe’s racist cheerleaders can no longer hide their despicable extremism. Downes believes that the fact that 54 per cent of babies were born to white British mothers in 2024 – and thus that 46 per cent were born to “white other”, mixed race or non-white mothers – as “an existential threat to our nation”. This claim, this specific sentence, is racist"

But wait a minute. Surely the fact that people whose lineage is outside Britain are popping out nearly half of the babies in the UK is a bit alarming? For all that we might pretend that these people are just as British as anyone else, there's evidence that many are not. I see flags of barbarous third-world regimes waved on Britain's streets. I see a newspaper for black Britons telling me that only one in ten black feel proud to be British. I see David Lammy, a poster boy for an integrated minority, agitate for reparations for foreign countries.

I'm a civic nationalist at heart, I genuinely believe people can come here and integrate. But civic nationalism is an ideal. It doesn't necessarily work as planned in the real world, and as distasteful as it might be to bleeding heart liberals such as me, it requires a certain amount of ethno-nationalism. We all know that if Britain became 99% Eritrean overnight, then regardless of what "values" the Eritreans had, we would have a very different country.

There's an interesting term that's arisen on the right, "demographic security", where a certain proportion of the British population has to be of British lineage before more migrants are allowed in. This makes sense to me. It preserves the harmony and security of this country and makes it a better place for migrants as well.

Israel understands this. They publish the fertility rates of their Arab Muslims alongside the Jewish population as a nudge to Israeli Jews to keep up, or be replaced.

Restore have been criticised for presenting over-simplified solutions to complex problems, but there genuinely are simple solutions. Pakistan deported 2.4 million Afghan migrants. They just did it. They told them to go home and, in some cases, laid on coaches to help. Given that Britain used to control a third of the world, I think we can achieve a goal of "being able to do what Pakistan is capable of doing".

The right should be the natural ally of Israel and Jews. Israel is the front line of Western civilisation. Israel shows the West how to handle the threat of Islamism, and how to have a healthy nationalism. And what's interesting is that every Jew I know, every Israeli I spoke to, wants Britain to have this healthy nationalism and wants Britain to control its borders.

I think a lot of Jews understand that their survival in both countries is dependent on those countries not being overrun by third world barbarians who want to kill Jews. We all know it's not smartly dressed young Restore candidates who are going on stabbing rampages at synagogues.

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